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July 10, 19870 Vol. 18, No. 28 750 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas
1.
THE GAY WEEKLY•OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL
A Aft, AN.
V AS V fl,"77... IIL-1191 I I MI IF Ma 1 III
' 'II MI Iffillb 1 MO I I KIEV A MI
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Eft I OW!. F MN F
Dukakis vetos ban on Gay foster parents
But angers Gays by allpwing insurance companies to use test
Deinniiitie Gov: and presidential
hopeful Michael 113!ukidds
by Rick Harding
Massachusetts Governor and presidential
candidate Michael Dukakis Wednesday
vetoed legislation that would have made
Gay men and Lesbians in The state ineligible
to become foster parents. But just a day after
the veto which Gay activists cheered,
• Dukakis administration Officials yesterday
angered Gays by adopting regulations
which will allow certain insurers in the state
to require AIDS antibody testing of
insurance applicants.
Using his line-item veto power, Dukakis
Wednesday killed an amendment to,the
state budget bill which declared Gays a
"detriment to the physical and psychologi-cal
well-being of children" and would have
• prevented Gays from becoming foster
parents.
Gay activists, who have .attacked the
governor for two ' years over his own
administration's foster care policy which
gives priority to "traditional" married
couples over Gays, this week praised
Dukakis' decision to veto the amendment.
Dukakis' Press Secretary James Dorsey
said the governor did not veto the
amendment to quiet critical Gays or to
attract votes from liberals', but did so
because he believed the legislation would
have been "unfair" and "bad- policy."
Dorsey said the amendment differed
markedly from the administration's own
policy because the amendment would have
"categorically denied Gays the opportun-ity"
to become foster parents, whereas the
Dukakis policy simply gives first priority to
couples who have experience in raising
children.
Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Political
Caucus Chairwoman Arline Isaacson said
although she is "thankful" that Dukakis
vetoed the amendment, she doubts Gays
will stop protesting the governor's own
policy which, she said, is "discriminatory
and offensive."
Continued on page 7
Society's denia!;adds problems ;for youth:
•' by Rick Harding
Society's 'denial of the possibility that
some adolescents-, are -Gay has led to
relatively high levels of suicide attempts and
emotional distress among Gay youth,
according to an article in tOday's edition of
the Journal of the American Medical
Association.
"Adolescents who are struggling with the
issue of homosexuality and are notreceiving
appropriate health care services and support
from family and community are in jeopardy
of serious emotional, social, and physicial
difficulties," the article states. "The potential
of such problems for the individual
adolescent is illness, dysfunction, or death."
The article, entitled "Homosexual Youth:
A Challenge to Contemporary Society," is
authored by Dr. Gary Remafedi, director of
the Adolescent Health Program at the
Department of Pediatrics at the University
of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic. Remafedi
notes that his article is based on his own
D.C. AIDS plan contract *
under investigation
D.C. Council faces another
Georgetown vote Tuesday 5
The Battleship Missouri
.4i triggers policy war 8
Batey son almost 'kidnapped'
after father's death 9
research, and the results of more than two
-dozen other sex research studies, but adds
that because little data is available on
Lesbian yOuth most of his comments
concern Gay male adolescents.
According to Remafedi, studies show
that between 7 percent and 34 percent 9f
Gay teenagers have attempted suicide arid
most of the attempts "were related to the
issue of sexual orientation."
In addition, he says higher than average
numbers of Gay teenagers undergo
psychiatric hospitalization, run away from
home, or regularly abuse alcohol or drugs.
• Remafedi suggests that to alleviate the
problems which trouble Gay -youth,
physicians, teachers, and other professionals
who work with adolescents must present
sex education "in a manner that promotes
self-acceptance and tolerance of ittdMduai
differences." He suggests, however, that
these same professiOnals might have a bias
against Gays. —
In a 1970 survey, nearly one-third of
1,000 physicians acknowledged .that their
attitudes toward Gays adversely affected
their medical treatment of Gay patients.
"Negative biases are also commonly
espoused by other critical persons in the
adolescent's milieu," said Remafedi,
"including school principals, teachers,
coaches, counselors, and peers.
Because adolescent homosexuality brings
Continued On page 7
Errant D.C. police officer
gets 'report' and counseling
by Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Officials with the D.C. Police Depart-ment's
Second District have charged a
police officer with dereliction of duty for the
officer's handling of an incident in which
four youths tried to abduct a Gay man near
P Street Beach on March 2L
Second District Lt. Samuel Doyle said
Deputy Chief Roland Perry, commander of
the Second District, approved the
dereliction of duty, charge against Officer
Timothy Venney three weeks ago,
'following a recommendation submitted to
him by Second District Captain Stephen
Carson.
The dereliction charge stems from a
complaint by Steve Fangmann, 22, a
resident of Gaithersburg, Maryland, who
said Venney refused to arrest four youths
who attempted to abduct him for the
purpose ofassaulting and robbing him while
he Was walking near 23rd and P streets,
N.W. at 3 a.m.
The incident occurred at a time when
Gay businesses and patrons of Gay bars in
the area reported a number of assaults
against Gays in the vicinity of P Street
Beach.
Fangmann said the youths grabbed him
as he was walking from Badlands, a nearby
Gay bar, and began dragging him toward P
Street Beach's wooded slope. He said the
attempted abduction was disrupted by a
motorist, who stopped his car and motioned
to the attackers that he was watching them.
Fangmann said the motorist allowed him to
enter the car after he broke free from the
youths.
Fangmann said he watched the youths
Continued on page 4
Appeals court
upholds FBI
hiring policy;
Bork on panel
by Lisa M. Keen
- In an opinion joined by U.S. Supreme
Court nominee Robert Bork, a federal
appeals court panel here rejected an Illinois
Lesbian's claim that the Federal Bureau of
Investigation violated her constitutional
rights -by refusing to hire her as an agent
The June 26 decision from a three-judge
panel of the US. Circuit Court of Appeals
for D.C. relied heavily on Bork's 1984
decision in Dronenburg v. Zech and the
Supreme Court's 1986 decision in
Hardwick v. Bowers to dismiss the case
brought by Margaret Padula. The 14-page -
opinion, penned by Judge Laurence
Silberman (President Reagan's latest
appointee to the D.C. appeals court), called
the Dronenburg and Hardwick decisions
"insurmountable barriers" to •Padula's
constitutional claim to equal protection.
Padula also claimed that, as a Lesbian,
she was a member Of a "suspect or quasi-suspect'
clam. Laws or actions applying to
such,cbsses must satisfy strict scrutiny from
the con* to _determine that they are
narnowlY-tulored tore ye a "compelling
• state interest"
"If the [Supreme] Court was unwilling to
object to state laws that criminalize the
behavior that defines the class," wrote
Silberman, "it is hardly open to a lower
court to conclude that state-sponsored
discrimination against the class is
invidious." Noting that laws would still
have to demonstrate some "rational basis"
to satisfy the equal protection clause of the
Constitution, Silberman quoted Bork's
contention in Dronenburg that homo-sexuality
generates "dislike and disapproval
among many. vyho find it morally
offensive."
"In Dronenburg," wrote Silberman, "the
Continued on page 7
The FBI case marks Supreme Court
nominee Robert Bork's second nding
against Gays.

July 10, 19870 Vol. 18, No. 28 750 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas
1.
THE GAY WEEKLY•OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL
A Aft, AN.
V AS V fl,"77... IIL-1191 I I MI IF Ma 1 III
' 'II MI Iffillb 1 MO I I KIEV A MI
Ink
Eft I OW!. F MN F
Dukakis vetos ban on Gay foster parents
But angers Gays by allpwing insurance companies to use test
Deinniiitie Gov: and presidential
hopeful Michael 113!ukidds
by Rick Harding
Massachusetts Governor and presidential
candidate Michael Dukakis Wednesday
vetoed legislation that would have made
Gay men and Lesbians in The state ineligible
to become foster parents. But just a day after
the veto which Gay activists cheered,
• Dukakis administration Officials yesterday
angered Gays by adopting regulations
which will allow certain insurers in the state
to require AIDS antibody testing of
insurance applicants.
Using his line-item veto power, Dukakis
Wednesday killed an amendment to,the
state budget bill which declared Gays a
"detriment to the physical and psychologi-cal
well-being of children" and would have
• prevented Gays from becoming foster
parents.
Gay activists, who have .attacked the
governor for two ' years over his own
administration's foster care policy which
gives priority to "traditional" married
couples over Gays, this week praised
Dukakis' decision to veto the amendment.
Dukakis' Press Secretary James Dorsey
said the governor did not veto the
amendment to quiet critical Gays or to
attract votes from liberals', but did so
because he believed the legislation would
have been "unfair" and "bad- policy."
Dorsey said the amendment differed
markedly from the administration's own
policy because the amendment would have
"categorically denied Gays the opportun-ity"
to become foster parents, whereas the
Dukakis policy simply gives first priority to
couples who have experience in raising
children.
Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Political
Caucus Chairwoman Arline Isaacson said
although she is "thankful" that Dukakis
vetoed the amendment, she doubts Gays
will stop protesting the governor's own
policy which, she said, is "discriminatory
and offensive."
Continued on page 7
Society's denia!;adds problems ;for youth:
•' by Rick Harding
Society's 'denial of the possibility that
some adolescents-, are -Gay has led to
relatively high levels of suicide attempts and
emotional distress among Gay youth,
according to an article in tOday's edition of
the Journal of the American Medical
Association.
"Adolescents who are struggling with the
issue of homosexuality and are notreceiving
appropriate health care services and support
from family and community are in jeopardy
of serious emotional, social, and physicial
difficulties," the article states. "The potential
of such problems for the individual
adolescent is illness, dysfunction, or death."
The article, entitled "Homosexual Youth:
A Challenge to Contemporary Society," is
authored by Dr. Gary Remafedi, director of
the Adolescent Health Program at the
Department of Pediatrics at the University
of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic. Remafedi
notes that his article is based on his own
D.C. AIDS plan contract *
under investigation
D.C. Council faces another
Georgetown vote Tuesday 5
The Battleship Missouri
.4i triggers policy war 8
Batey son almost 'kidnapped'
after father's death 9
research, and the results of more than two
-dozen other sex research studies, but adds
that because little data is available on
Lesbian yOuth most of his comments
concern Gay male adolescents.
According to Remafedi, studies show
that between 7 percent and 34 percent 9f
Gay teenagers have attempted suicide arid
most of the attempts "were related to the
issue of sexual orientation."
In addition, he says higher than average
numbers of Gay teenagers undergo
psychiatric hospitalization, run away from
home, or regularly abuse alcohol or drugs.
• Remafedi suggests that to alleviate the
problems which trouble Gay -youth,
physicians, teachers, and other professionals
who work with adolescents must present
sex education "in a manner that promotes
self-acceptance and tolerance of ittdMduai
differences." He suggests, however, that
these same professiOnals might have a bias
against Gays. —
In a 1970 survey, nearly one-third of
1,000 physicians acknowledged .that their
attitudes toward Gays adversely affected
their medical treatment of Gay patients.
"Negative biases are also commonly
espoused by other critical persons in the
adolescent's milieu," said Remafedi,
"including school principals, teachers,
coaches, counselors, and peers.
Because adolescent homosexuality brings
Continued On page 7
Errant D.C. police officer
gets 'report' and counseling
by Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Officials with the D.C. Police Depart-ment's
Second District have charged a
police officer with dereliction of duty for the
officer's handling of an incident in which
four youths tried to abduct a Gay man near
P Street Beach on March 2L
Second District Lt. Samuel Doyle said
Deputy Chief Roland Perry, commander of
the Second District, approved the
dereliction of duty, charge against Officer
Timothy Venney three weeks ago,
'following a recommendation submitted to
him by Second District Captain Stephen
Carson.
The dereliction charge stems from a
complaint by Steve Fangmann, 22, a
resident of Gaithersburg, Maryland, who
said Venney refused to arrest four youths
who attempted to abduct him for the
purpose ofassaulting and robbing him while
he Was walking near 23rd and P streets,
N.W. at 3 a.m.
The incident occurred at a time when
Gay businesses and patrons of Gay bars in
the area reported a number of assaults
against Gays in the vicinity of P Street
Beach.
Fangmann said the youths grabbed him
as he was walking from Badlands, a nearby
Gay bar, and began dragging him toward P
Street Beach's wooded slope. He said the
attempted abduction was disrupted by a
motorist, who stopped his car and motioned
to the attackers that he was watching them.
Fangmann said the motorist allowed him to
enter the car after he broke free from the
youths.
Fangmann said he watched the youths
Continued on page 4
Appeals court
upholds FBI
hiring policy;
Bork on panel
by Lisa M. Keen
- In an opinion joined by U.S. Supreme
Court nominee Robert Bork, a federal
appeals court panel here rejected an Illinois
Lesbian's claim that the Federal Bureau of
Investigation violated her constitutional
rights -by refusing to hire her as an agent
The June 26 decision from a three-judge
panel of the US. Circuit Court of Appeals
for D.C. relied heavily on Bork's 1984
decision in Dronenburg v. Zech and the
Supreme Court's 1986 decision in
Hardwick v. Bowers to dismiss the case
brought by Margaret Padula. The 14-page -
opinion, penned by Judge Laurence
Silberman (President Reagan's latest
appointee to the D.C. appeals court), called
the Dronenburg and Hardwick decisions
"insurmountable barriers" to •Padula's
constitutional claim to equal protection.
Padula also claimed that, as a Lesbian,
she was a member Of a "suspect or quasi-suspect'
clam. Laws or actions applying to
such,cbsses must satisfy strict scrutiny from
the con* to _determine that they are
narnowlY-tulored tore ye a "compelling
• state interest"
"If the [Supreme] Court was unwilling to
object to state laws that criminalize the
behavior that defines the class," wrote
Silberman, "it is hardly open to a lower
court to conclude that state-sponsored
discrimination against the class is
invidious." Noting that laws would still
have to demonstrate some "rational basis"
to satisfy the equal protection clause of the
Constitution, Silberman quoted Bork's
contention in Dronenburg that homo-sexuality
generates "dislike and disapproval
among many. vyho find it morally
offensive."
"In Dronenburg," wrote Silberman, "the
Continued on page 7
The FBI case marks Supreme Court
nominee Robert Bork's second nding
against Gays.